Need some advice on Laptop for Computer Science

[ItsYaBoyMilan-X]

What laptop do you suggest? i am looking at a thinkpad. Love my X230, thinking about getting a older T480, what do you think?

 

 

My max budget is 1500$ CAD, willing to go used.

 

 

Looking for

 

- upgradability

 

- repairability

 

- 1080p minimum

 

- Good battery life

 

- Good Linux support( i know almost everything has this)

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

[Slottr]

Upgradability is basically gone in 2021

 

Honestly, I cannot recommend a macbook enough in CS. Probably not what you want, but I would not stray from MacOS at this point.

 

- A senior CS student

[ItsYaBoyMilan-X]

6 minutes ago, Slottr said:

 

Honestly, I cannot recommend a macbook enough in CS. Probably not what you want, but I would not stray from MacOS at this point.

 

 

Actually i tried a new macbook almost every year but

 

 

2013- killed it self( GPU)- had to reball it to sell it

 

 

2016- keyboard broke- The apple store Genius said i type too fast- Thankfully they refunded me

 

 

2020- Had a bunch of kernel panic and no windows/ Linux support. I really want to use POP OS and contribute to its development, so being able to boot into it would be really helpful.

 

 

I love the Ipad for notes, will get a Mac mini to make Iphone apps. Avoiding Macs for now, waiting for 2nd or 3rd gen.

 

 

 

Thanks

[Radium_Angel]

46 minutes ago, ItsYaBoyMilan-X said:

upgradability

Hear me out:

 

Walmart (no, wait, come back, I"m serious!) made one called the Motile 14.

I wrote a review here

 

I believe it's everything you are asking for....

 

[Rainbow Dash]

I have been programming on my HP 230 G5, which has an i3-6006u through all my CS classes. I recommend getting a laptop with 8GB or more, from experience Pycharm, IntelliJ, etc; will eat a lot of ram compiling and running code.

[ItsYaBoyMilan-X]

21 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Hear me out:

 

Walmart (no, wait, come back, I"m serious!) made one called the Motile 14.

I wrote a review here

 

I believe it's everything you are asking for....

 

Thanks for the suggestion, not sure if it will last 1 year. Also i live in Canada, so can't buy one from Walmart. I can find resellers selling it for 1000 CAD, IMO not worth it at that price.

15 hours ago, Rainbow Dash said:

I have been programming on my HP 230 G5, which has an i3-6006u through all my CS classes. I recommend getting a laptop with 8GB or more, from experience Pycharm, IntelliJ, etc; will eat a lot of ram compiling and running code.

Cool, should i go for a newer HP? or get a t480 or 95? How is the build holding up?

[Radium_Angel]

No worries.

Professional opinion: I wouldn't own an HP if you gave me the money to buy it with.

[ItsYaBoyMilan-X]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

: I wouldn't own an HP if you gave me the money to buy it with.

My experience with HP also has been really bad, so avoiding them.

 

ty

[Rainbow Dash]

2 hours ago, ItsYaBoyMilan-X said:

Cool, should i go for a newer HP? or get a t480 or 95? How is the build holding up?

Go with HP if you really like to do troubleshooting yourself, I mean really.  I just did a fresh install of Win10 as soon as I got it, slap in a SSD, install some drivers, and it has been working fine for the last 5 years. I'm more suprised the hinges haven't broke yet from my constant closing/opening of the lid. The only thing that really was a plus was the removable battery. HP also locked down all their BIOSes, so you can't access advanced settings anymore.